# Network Engineer

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Memphis, TN
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4870731007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_2c860679-50b

## Description

## About the Role

Our Network Engineering team handles a dynamic, constantly growing and evolving global network that provides a reliable, high-performance and secure network behind one of the few products in the world that touches over 1 billion people.

As a Network Engineer, you will be responsible for defining configuration and architecture standards, contributing to the qualification of new platforms, provisioning of network devices, and managing corporate circuits.

## Responsibilities

- Help to define configuration and architecture standards

- Contribute to the qualification of new platforms

- Provisioning of network devices in corporate offices and POPs as per documented procedures

- Provisioning and management of corporate circuits

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of configuration standards and operational procedures

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of corporate device monitoring

- Liaise with third parties, IT and remote office users to fix and resolve issues

- Creation and execution of scheduled changes, process & documentation

- Participate in the on call rotation

- Maintaining and upgrading existing systems, firmware updates and configurations

- Monitoring network performance and ensuring system availability and reliability

- Troubleshooting: Analyzing and resolving network hardware and software problems

## Basic Qualifications

- Basic understanding of BGP configuration and management

- Basic knowledge of backbone and datacenter networks

- Working understanding of wireless technologies

- Working knowledge of at least one internal routing protocol, its configuration and day to day operation

- Working knowledge of corporate networking

- Working knowledge of TCP/IP

- Working knowledge of remote access

- Strong documentation and communication skill set

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Familiarity with multiple networking vendors, such as Juniper, Cisco, Aruba, Arista

- Remote Access

- Network security and NAC

- Scripting and automation of network operations activities

## ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

## Skills

### Required
- BGP configuration and management
- Backbone and datacenter networks
- Wireless technologies
- Internal routing protocols
- Corporate networking
- TCP/IP
- Remote access

### Nice to have
- Juniper
- Cisco
- Aruba
- Arista
- Network security and NAC
- Scripting and automation of network operations activities